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Prysmian has received a €850 million contract award for a cable connection project in the United Kingdom.
Cabling giant Prysmian Group has secured a deal for around €850 million in the United Kingdom for a high voltage direct current (HVDC) cable connection. It keeps up the objective of enabling 50 GW offshore wind power generation by 2030 and aids the government in accomplishing its net zero by 2050 goal. This contract with Eastern Green Link 1 Limited, a joint venture of UK transmission grid operators SP Transmission and National Grid Electricity Transmission, is for the provision of cable systems for the Eastern Green Link 1 (EGL1) network development project between Scotland and England.
The new multi-million dollar contract has been added to the company's order backlog and is effective immediately. This follows the company's selection as the preferred bidder for the Eastern Green Link 1 (EGL1) cable link in the United Kingdom, which came shortly after the Italian firm was selected for the Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) project.
The EGL1 project aims to provide a major electrical transmission link between Torness in East Lothian, Scotland, and Hawthorn Pit in County Durham, England. Prysmian highlights that this is the UK's first contract cable system to use 525 kV HVDC technology with extruded XLPE insulation. Prysmian will design, produce, construct, test, and commission the needed HVDC cable system with a capacity of 2 GW.
This will allow roughly 400 kilometres of power cable lines to be delivered for the 194-kilometer connection connecting the two countries. Prysmian will deliver HVAC cable systems over a 5 km stretch in Scotland to connect the Torness converter station with the grid substation at Branxton, needing 30 km of 400 kV XLPE insulated cable. Fibre optic cable and monitoring systems will be added to the relevant HVDC and HVAC cable systems.
"We value enormously the trust that SP Energy Networks and National Grid have placed in Prysmian to deliver this first-of-its-kind project in the UK," said Hakan Ozmen, EVP Projects at Prysmian Group. This milestone deal validates our expertise in the field of HVDC systems, as well as our degree of commitment to providing the assistance our clients demand as they establish and improve the cable network connections essential for the energy transition."
The Italian company explained that cable manufacturing is planned at its centres of excellence in Pikkala, Finland, for underwater cables, and Gron and Montereau, France, for onshore cables. The offshore installation tasks will necessitate the utilisation of the firm's Leonardo da Vinci class cable laying vessel, with project commissioning scheduled for 2028.
"Eastern Green Link 1 is one of a series of planned EGL system reinforcements between the East Coasts of Scotland and England that shall significantly increase the capability and resilience of the existing UK transmission network and facilitate the growth in flows of electricity from renewable generation to consumers," according to Prysmian.
Read the full Press release here- https://www.prysmiangroup.com/en/media/press-release/prysmian-first-525-kv-submarine-cable-system-in-the-uk
